Ain’t it Scary? with Sean & Carrie

Ep. 62: “Paul is Dead” – The Beatles Death Conspiracy

In honor of the Beatles documentary Get Back premiering over Thanksgiving on Disney+, Carrie takes us through one of her favorite conspiracies of all time: “Paul is Dead”. This conspiracy theory, which spread across the globe like wildfire beginning…

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Ep. 61: Paul John Knowles – The Casanova Killer

Plenty of trigger warnings apply as Sean takes us back to the grim world of serial killers with the human string of misadventures known as Paul John Knowles. After killing (probably) 20 people on a cross-country crime spree, Knowles was dubbed the…

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Ep. 60: America’s Most Haunted Hotels

Hotels are places of transition, whose rooms have seen intense passions, furious hatred, great joys, deep sorrows, and even murder. Not surprisingly, hotels are also places that seem to attract the spirits of their former tenants. 
From a golf course…

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Ep. 59: Valiant Thor

On March 16th, 1957, a Venusian named Valiant Thor landed his flying saucer in Alexandria, Virginia. After meeting Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon at the White House, Thor would live in an a luxury apartment in the base of the Pentagon for the…

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Ep. 58: The Salem Witch Trials, Pt. 3 – The Executions

Here we are at the long-awaited final episode in our Salem Witch Trials series. What is there to say aside from that on this episode we examine the worst miscarriages of justice in the whole hysteria: the 20 innocent people executed on blatantly vague…

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: “Ain’t it Kitschy?” Ep. 1 – Halloween Novelty Songs (Patreon Preview)

What does that mishmash of an episode title mean? Well, gentle listeners, this week in honor of the approaching All Hallow’s Eve we are taking a short break to prepare our intense final episode of our “Salem Witch Trials” series and dropping in a…

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Ep. 57: The Salem Witch Trials, Pt. 2 – The Accused

In this 2nd part of what’s become a 3-part series, we dive deeper into the tragic events of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and how the hysteria began to rapidly spread across Salem and beyond – now in the guise of dozens of arrests and hearings with…

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Ep. 56: The Salem Witch Trials, Pt. 1 – The Accusers

We’ve finally come to our long promised two-parter on one of Carrie’s pet interests, the Salem Witch Trials!In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, tensions were already high. The Puritan colonists were struggling through the “Little Ice Age” devastating their…

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Ep. 55: Werewolves!

Halloween is SPOOKY SEASON, and Sean is kicking us off with a howlin’ all-werewolf episode! We take a whirlwind tour of the mythology and history of werewolves (including skinwalkers and the Rougarou) before tackling real life monsters like Gilles…

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Ep. 54: John Dale Cavaness – Murder in Little Egypt

Dr. John Dale Cavaness was a beloved small-town doctor and respected member of his community, so there was a public outcry when he was accused of murdering his own son, Sean, for insurance money in 1984. It didn’t come out until his trial that…

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